From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multi-threaded Emacs
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:22:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <863ah2mw20.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2hc5i3mx0.fsf@gmail.com
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:02:19 +0100 Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> wrote:
HE> I'm wondering what the exact problem with Gnus is.
HE> Certainly, downloading the next article takes a bit of time but threads
HE> wont make the download any faster. Is there something the user wants to
HE> do while waiting for the next article?
Even assuming all server interactions can be backgrounded (they can't
AFAIK because of their current design, interacting with the global data
all over the place), one place that's slow is article splitting. You
fetch an article, then run some rules (e.g. spam filters and registry
searches) to decide where it will go. This can be 90% parallelized, I
would guess.
Reading mail normally has never been so slow that I wished it could be
done in the background.
Saving the newsrc file is sometimes slow, so backgrounding it would be
nice. Of course, you don't want to garble that data so it's important
to do it right.
The Gnus registry should be asynchronous for:
- tracking article move/delete/copy/spool operations
- saving the registry file
- interacting with spam.el
spam.el should be asynchronous for:
- running a spam backend on an article
- determining the spam score of an article
- telling the registry the results of spam processing
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 13:32 multi-threaded Emacs Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-29 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 21:01 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-29 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 11:35 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 22:25 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 23:30 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 22:50 ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-07 3:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 22:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-30 16:43 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-11-30 17:34 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 22:10 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-11-30 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 23:09 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 0:10 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-01 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 14:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-01 18:57 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-01 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 22:41 ` joakim
2008-12-02 16:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-02 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 22:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-03 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-03 18:26 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-03 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 2:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 7:40 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-05 8:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-05 9:42 ` Paul R
2008-12-05 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-05 10:35 ` Paul R
2008-12-05 11:02 ` Helmut Eller
2008-12-05 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2008-12-05 16:57 ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-06 4:41 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-06 7:44 ` Helmut Eller
2008-12-06 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 8:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 19:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-06 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 23:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-07 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 23:51 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-08 3:06 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-08 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 16:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-07 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-07 16:15 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-08 18:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-08 19:49 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-09 2:15 ` dhruva
2008-12-09 2:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-09 2:53 ` dhruva
2008-12-09 9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-09 17:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-09 19:10 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-09 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-10 18:18 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-11 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-11 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 18:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-11 19:01 ` Paul R
2008-12-11 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-12 19:03 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-13 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 19:07 ` Paul R
2008-12-11 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-05 2:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 23:10 ` Florian Beck
2008-11-30 22:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-30 16:44 ` Richard M Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-03 7:59 Re[2]: " ak70
2008-12-04 8:45 ` Richard M Stallman
[not found] ` <87prk8mhg9.fsf@vanilla.net.mt>
[not found] ` <E1L8ZUB-0002x3-VT@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-12-05 13:27 ` Li Lin
[not found] ` <87prk64ilv.fsf@vanilla.net.mt>
2008-12-05 18:37 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2008-12-06 21:58 ` Magnus Henoch
2008-12-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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